ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,360,583, issued on July 15, was assigned to Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP (Spring, Texas).
"Pseudo-sleep mode for networking devices" was invented by Xingzhao Zhang (Beijing), Yinzhi Dong (Tianjin, China) and Jia Li (Beijing).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A networking device includes communication interfaces, a System-on-Chip (SoC), and pseudo-sleep mode logic. The SoC includes a processor, a memory, an internal PHY module, and other internal SoC modules. The pseudo-sleep mode logic is configured to detect receipt of a sleep command, in response, cause the networking device to enter a pseudo-sleep mode in which the internal S...